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Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB VS eVGA GTX560 ti 448 Cores

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I'm in the final stages of buildling my PC and I came across the radeon 6950 at a similar price as the 448 cores.

Which one would be better suited for my gaming needs?

I know AMD's driver's are released later than NVIDIA's but performance wise which one's better?

TIA
 
What res are you running? I believe the GTX 560 Ti 448 cores is slightly better than the HD 6950; but just below the 6970.

Unless you feel you need the 2GB frame buffer; the nvidia card wins my vote.
 
Can't the 6950 Toxic unlock to a 6970, making it a better deal? If not i would go for the 560 Ti.

EDIT: Looks like the Toxic edition of the 6970 is hard to find, it's about a 80% chance of getting a 6970 just by flipping a switch, that would be my vote, even if it doesn't unlock you still get a great GPU, if it does unlock, you got a freakin' awesome deal.
 
hmm just saw a radeon 6970 for $330.. probably will pick that up instead over the asus gtx570.
 
The 6970 is better than the gtx570? First time building a comp by myself so bear with me :D
 
GTX 570 and HD 6970 2GB Trade blows. If you can get the HD 6970 for a lesser price; go for it.

Note this; the GTX 570 TENDS to have higher minimum frame rates. Which is a general thing over Nvidia vs amd cards.

But the 2GB frame buffer ensures no issues with vram for the HD 6970.

If you're a battlefield 3 player though; the GTX 570 is the better card for this. Nvidia works better on BF3. Why? No idea.

I would buy the sapphire card and be done with it. Before the stocks go out ;).

What's the rest of your system going to be anyway?
 
Original plan:

Case: Corsair 500R
Processor: i5 2500k $
Motherboard: asus p8z68-v pro / gen3
heatsink: Noctua NH D14
memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel Kit
HD: 1TB Seagate barracuda sata III with 64mb cache
video card: evga GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 cores
power supply: Corsair Gaming Series GS800 Power Supply

Debating on the GPU and my HD whether i shouldl grab a SSD

While you're at it, would this ssd be any good:
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX34786
 
That SSD is good, just very small. I would not go with less than a 120 GB for a desktop drive.

Z68 supports caching though which is an option with a small SSD.
 
with the SSD, i was going to load my OS and a few other things that i wanted to load up faster. I would still use a HDD for everything else though.
 
Please dear god forget caching. Get the 60GB SSD and use it as a boot/main drive for main apps only with games on the HDD. It's worth it. Buy it. Or a Crucial M4 SSD (i prefer Crucial personally)

A Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo will cool a 2500K perfectly fine if you can save some money there. NH D14 is overkill for a 2500K.

Stick to 8GB of RAM unless you KNOW you need it; if you don't know; you don't need it!

Grab a GTX 570 or HD 6970 2GB and be done with it IMO.

I would also pick a different power supply. Silverstone Strider Gold 750 Would be my pick. Only 5 bucks more than your current choice; and fully modular. And performs better as well with a better efficiency.
 
Mjolnir said:
Please dear god forget caching. Get the 60GB SSD and use it as a boot/main drive for main apps only with games on the HDD. It's worth it. Buy it. Or a Crucial M4 SSD (i prefer Crucial personally)

A Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo will cool a 2500K perfectly fine if you can save some money there. NH D14 is overkill for a 2500K.

Stick to 8GB of RAM unless you KNOW you need it; if you don't know; you don't need it!

Grab a GTX 570 or HD 6970 2GB and be done with it IMO.

I would also pick a different power supply. Silverstone Strider Gold 750 Would be my pick. Only 5 bucks more than your current choice; and fully modular. And performs better as well with a better efficiency.
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Considered the Hyper 212,however even OC'd to 4.5ghz would be fine?

As for the PSU, i thought modular ones don't work as well, and also would 750 watts be able to SLI the 570?
 
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Yes it can sli it.

Modular PSUs are the way to go. It's been years since they were worse than their non modular brothers.

Yes a hyper 212 will take a 2500k to 4.5ghz no problem.
 
Alright thanks man.
Also, I just found a OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD for $150.. hear any good things about it? else i'll grab the crucial m4.

atm, im leaning towards :
Crucial >Corsair>>OCZ.
 
Providing you update the Firmware of the OCZ it should be fine.

To be fair; 120GB SSD for 150 bucks? That's a good deal. Go for it. Just remember to update the firmware or you will get endless BSOD's.

I still prefer Crucial for SSD's though..
 
Yup picking up the crucial m4 ssd tmr.

as for the hyper212 evo, would push pull make a big difference? Also how would that be set up?
 
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